One of my favorite first week assignments is an open-ended analysis of a short anonymous survey on students’ backgrounds, skills, and learning preferences
Tees up a good discussion about data issues, but also the students learn (and teach me!) a bunch about themselves
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Here was an intriguing (provocative?) finding on the question “Would you say your overall preference for our course is to have a moderate workload (even if you learn less) or to learn as much as possible (even if you have to work very hard)?” 2/2